Supervisors v. Stanley
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
Stanley recovered a judgment against the Board of Supervisors of the County of Albany, for taxes exacted and paid under legal process, on shares-of the stock of the National Albany Exchange Bank. A large number of the shareholders of the bank who had paid this tax made an assignment of their claims to him, and the- judgment was for the sum of $61,991.20, with interest and.costs.
The ground of this recovery was that the statute of New York, under which the shares were assessed, was void, because it did not permit the shareholder to make deduction of-the amount of his débts from the valuation of…
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